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Central High School ROTC member Maurice Bryson prepares to join the 20th annual Veterans Day Parade downtown as a color guard. The parade, sponsored by American Legion Post 1, was lead by a group veterans that represented each branch of the military and featured marching bands and ROTC programs from more than a dozen area high schools.

Andre Stockard gets the crowd at B.B. King's Blues Club riled up from behind his B-3 organ on a Saturday night. According to the the Beale Street Merchants Association clubs on Beale employ roughly 200 local musicians on a regular basis with hundreds more that come for singular performances.

(l-r) Juan Rojas and Jose Larious, with Mahaffey Tent and Party Rental, secure a tent while doing set-up work at Tom Lee Park for the Memphis in May barbeque festival.

Former world heavywieght boxing champion "Smokin' Joe" Frazier laughs inside his North Philadelphia gym. Frazier, who is best known for his trilogy of fights with Muhammad Ali ending with the "Thrilla in Manilla" in 1975, will step into the ring with Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton for a fund raiser on November 30 at the Peabody Hotel. The 62-year-old Frazier will go up against the 66-year-old mayor and former amateur boxing champ.

Long Walk Home: Santa walks down Third Street back to Caldwell Elementary School after he and the 330 students at the school visited with residents of the Magnolia Terrace senior citizen's home.

Men wounded by land mines are trained on how to walk with prosthetic legs at Handicap International in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The UK-based organization provides free prosthesis and training for victims of land mines.

A homeless man sleeps on the floor outside a watt in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The lack of government aid, training and available jobs for amputees leaves many land mine victims impoverished or homeless.

Elder Cal H.P. Merrell, from Atlanta, yells out while dancing with a tambourine during the Convocation Official Day Service at FedExForum. Saints from all over the world filled the arena to hear the sermon delivered by Presiding Bishop Charles E. Blake.

Kenny Thielemier, 23, closes a dance with grace during practices with Company d, a performing arts troupe for individuals with Down Syndrome. The group performs around town regularly and has even performed at an official off-Broadway venue in New York City. He is part of the first generation of Down Syndrome patients for whom childhood and adolescence was one long intervention. As babies, their parents learned to use beach balls to improve their child's muscle tone and coordination. They rode horses with the Special Cargo horseback- riding program for the disabled and participated in sports through Special Olympics. They started school as toddlers and stayed into their 20s.

A pedestrian strolls down the sidewalk on Third Street near Autozone Park this week amid a pallet of color. From the gold and green of the changing grass to the red explosion of a Maple tree along the western side of Toyota Center parking garage.

Saxophone player Lannie McMillan sparks up a cigarette during recording session at Royal Studios for local band Deering and Down. The storied studio, started by famed producer Willie Mitchell, stays booked months in advance with Willie Mitchell's son Lawrence "Boo" Mitchell behind the board. It's not uncommon in Memphis that children of music legends from the past are carrying the torch into the future.

Mary Lou Moore bends down and kisses the headstone on her late husband Charles Moore's grave after a Veterans Day ceremony at Memphis National Cemetery. Charles Moore served in the Air Force during WWII and Korea. Veterans Day events will continue throughout the week.

Camp X-Ray was used to house detainees capured in operations associated with the Global War on Terror, also known as Operation Enduring Freedom, but was closed in November 2002 once construction on Camp Delta was completed. The dilapidated facility is now home to insects and wildlife.

A Cuban Grassquit sits on razor wire surrounding Camp X-Ray on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The endemic species is a sampling of the colorful life that has filled the former detention facililty once used to keep prisoners captured in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom.

(l-r) Paul Taylor, Steve Selvidge and Amy LaVere cross the street after eating dinner to get ready for their performance at Twangfest 13 being held The Pageant in St. Louis.

Memphis' (l-r) Chris Douglas-Roberts, Joey Dorsey, Derrick Rose and Antonio Anderson walk back to the bench with confidence during a time-out in the second half of the Elite Eight match-up with Texas in Houston. The four had a combined 66 points in the Tigers' 85-67 victory over Texas.

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Jermain Fields, 23, weeps at the edge of his brother's grave in a Raleigh cemetery. Charles E. Henry, 34, better known as 'Picklehead' in the neighborhood, was one of six murder victims Memorial Day Weekend. His mother Gwendolyn Henry says of police: "They saw all those tattoos on him and they knew what that meant. But they still treated his murder like he was a human being. And I appreciated that."

At Montgomery Plaza in South Memphis, deputies from the Shelby County Street Crimes Unit detain a suspected Vice Lord and drug dealer after seeing him swallow what they believed was crack cocaine.

Memphis Firefighter Richard Bryan, with Truck 12 at Engine House 30, rolls up a massive flag draped from the ladder of the truck outside the Fire Museum on Adams after the close of the Fire Department's Annual Awards Service. This year 25 firefighters were recognized for their outstanding service, bravery, life saving and heroism as well as citizen Leo Brown for his efforts during a rescue at Robco Lake

Frank Cheatham, who turned 35 on Monday, kisses his daughter Madison, 13, goodbye outside the James A. Gardner Armory in Dyersburg as he prepares to deploy to Iraq with the Tennessee Army National Guard's 168th Military Police Battalion.